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Suwannee Hulaween Calls Everyone Back to the Woods for 2026

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July 5, 2026

South Florida Insider

Suwannee Hulaween 2026 Returns with Pretty Lights, My Morning Jacket, Warren Haynes, Excision and Forest Fueled Weirdness.

July 3rd, 2026

Suwannee Hulaween is calling everyone back into the woods, and this year, the forest is apparently not interested in being subtle.

The beloved Florida festival returns to Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak from October 22 through 25, bringing with it the kind of lineup that makes group chats immediately chaotic. Pretty Lights, My Morning Jacket, Excision, Geese, and three nights of The String Cheese Incident sit at the top of the 2026 bill, setting the tone for another four day escape where genres blur, costumes multiply, and nobody’s phone battery survives unbothered.

Now entering its 13th year, Hulaween has long operated in its own little universe. It is part music festival, part campground reunion, part art world fever dream, and part “how did we end up dancing under Spanish moss at 2 a.m. with someone dressed like a wizard?” The answer, usually, is Hula.

This year’s lineup stretches wide, pulling from electronic, jam, rock, funk, indie, Americana, bass, house, and whatever category best explains the beautiful chaos that happens when Hulaween starts mixing worlds. Alongside the headliners, the festival will welcome Ben Böhmer, Big Gramatik featuring Big Gigantic and Gramatik, Crankdat, Daily Bread, Green Velvet, Levity, Of The Trees, STS9, Hamdi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, and plenty more.

The newest additions bring even more swamp electricity to the weekend. The Warren Haynes Incident will feature a special guest performance by the legendary Warren Haynes, who will join The String Cheese Incident for Saturday night’s Shebang. That set will dig into the songbooks of Warren Haynes, Gov’t Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, and Grateful Dead, with musical surprises likely waiting somewhere between peachy Southern soul, jam band wizardry, and full moon festival magic.

KETTAMA is also headed from Ireland to the Florida swamp, bringing high energy hard house and techno with UK garage influence to headline the Amphitheater one night. In other words, the moss may need a hydration break.

The Frost Children will arrive with a DJ set built from their wild indie hyperpop universe, mixing punk, emo, bass, alt pop, and dance focused electronic energy. The sibling duo, originally from St. Louis and now tied to New York City’s left of center music scene, should fit nicely into Hula’s “what exactly is happening and why do I love it?” late night lane.

Dean Turnley also joins the lineup after breaking through with “Actin’ Tough,” one of the year’s house music standouts. From Australia to Suwannee, he has been making his name on dance floors, and now gets to bring that momentum into the Hulaween orbit.

EOTO will also make its first Hula set since 2019, and the return is getting some serious extra flavor. The all improvised, bass heavy electronic jam set will feature special guests Kyle Hollingsworth of The String Cheese Incident on keys and Scott Metzger of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead and LaMP on guitar. Deep inside Spirit Lake, that combination feels less like a set and more like a portal with better rhythm.

For longtime Hula fans, there is also a strong dose of familiar magic returning to the park. A Hundred Drums, Eggy, EOTO & Friends, Guavatron, Jon Stickley Trio, Karina Rykman, Lettuce, Maddy O’Neal, Manic Focus, Opiuo, The Ain’t Sisters, Tire Fire, and several others are back in the mix, helping keep that thread of continuity alive from one wild Suwannee weekend to the next.

The festival is also opening the gates for a fresh wave of first timers, including Ahee, AK SPORTS, Daniel Allan, Dope Lemon, DRAMA with a DJ set, Effy, Greyboy Allstars, Guerilla Toss, Jerro, Kasablanca, LaMP, Lewis OfMan, Midnight Generation, Mountain Grass Unit, Natalie Brooke, salute, Steller, Tini Gessler, True Loves, Willis, and many more. Basically, there will be plenty of names fans already love, and a few they will pretend they “totally knew about before” after stumbling into a great set.

Hulaween 2026 will also bring several curated takeovers into the weekend, including Green Velvet presents LaLaLand, Of The Trees’ Memory Palace, and the Def: Off Limits Stage. These artist led experiences add another layer to a festival already known for making people wander away from one plan and into something better.

Of course, the lineup is only part of the Hula story. Spirit of the Suwannee is not just a venue you pass through on the way to a stage. It is the personality of the whole thing. The moss-covered trees, riverbanks, trails, open campsites, and tucked away corners all help turn the weekend into something that feels more like stepping into a strange, glowing village than attending a standard music festival.

That feeling comes alive most famously at Spirit Lake, the festival’s signature immersive art environment. For 2026, the Spirit Lake 360º Experience returns, bringing back the full walking path around the lake after attendee feedback. With projection mapping, large scale installations, interactive art, live performance elements, and enough visual weirdness to make your camera roll look like it joined a secret society, Spirit Lake remains one of the festival’s biggest draws.

Hulaween is also making some fan friendly moves this year. Four-day GA passes start at $469, which is more than $75 less than 2025 pricing. For a festival that could easily lean into the “everything costs more now, good luck out there” model, that is a welcome surprise for the Hula Fam.

Other upgrades include expanded VIP offerings, a new dedicated gate connecting Meadow Field camping directly to the festival grounds, the return of the River Road VIP Lounge entrance, increased shuttle service, enhanced VIP swag bags, and additional comfort focused improvements throughout the weekend. New glamping and preset RV options are also being introduced for anyone who loves the idea of camping but not necessarily the part where you argue with tent poles in the Florida heat.

Held annually around Halloween, Suwannee Hulaween has become one of the country’s most distinctive festival experiences because it understands that the best weekends are not built from a lineup alone. They are built from the people, the costumes, the art, the campsites, the sunrise stories, the unexpected sets, and the strange little moments nobody can fully explain when they get home.

With its 2026 return, Hulaween looks ready to do what it does best: gather a devoted community, drop them into one of Florida’s most magical natural settings, and let the weekend get wonderfully weird.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 9 at 12 p.m. ET. The festival takes place October 22 through 25 at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. For tickets and more information, visit hulaween.frontgatetickets.com or hulaween.com.